Todd Lewis Sargent

Experience

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  VDA | Experiential Marketing and Event Design Agency

  Mar 1996 - now

  Senior Project Manager

  • Determine necessary equipment, labor, skill-sets and costs needed for initial project proposals• Strengthen customer relations, oversee budgets, inspect and review sites• Act as liaison between client and subcontractors, design and onsite departments • Evaluate schedules and projects with venues, identify potential conflicts, procure fire and insurance certificates• Prepare detailed lists of elements: sets, graphics, sound, light, video, and audio required for installations• Create floorplans, lighting and rigging plots• Generate annotated schedules for all departments to follow• Provide oversight for all aspects of loading, all installations, show runs to completion • Responsible for quality control of final production, and safe and mindful work environments Show less

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  Todd Lewis Sargent

  Jul 2006 - Jan 2020

  Freelance Event Producer

  • Consulted and assisted artists, performers and musicians to realize their projects• Managed crew and tech volunteers for performances and installations• Installed stage, scenic and lighting for individual events at Arts at the Armory, Warehouse XI, Once Ballroom and Nave Gallery in Somerville. • Designed ,executed production and lighting for Psychedelic Cinema at Accurate Studios, Caspian at the Larcom Theater, Beverly , the Boston Rock Opera and Fort Point Theater Channel• Curated and installed art show Field Trip presenting group of Fort Point Channel contemporary artists at the Nave Gallery, Somerville MA• Production support and lighting design, and video projection for Art Show Down at Arts Interactive Gallery, Cambridge• Conceptualized and produced standalone and annual art events for Somerville Arts Council including Hawaiian Song and Dance Night; experimental silent film screenings with live bands Not So Silent Night, large multi-media dance party under a bridge ProjectMuM 2006-2010; film with live musical performance Split Signal among many others Show less

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  Spotify

  Oct 2015 - Jun 2019

  Lighting Designer

  • Consultant in-house lighting system for a permanent performance space and potential upgrades• Customized stage lighting and design for live performances according to bands’ and/or video production requirements• Designed, installed, operated lighting for in house performance space.• Provided lighting support for offsite events.